Device for winding or coiling wire.



C. A. SCHOLL. DEVICE FOR wmoms 0R COILING WIRE.

APPLICATION FlLED NOV-16.1916.

Patented Aug. 28, 1917.

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APPLICATION FILED NOV. 16. 1916.

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) I \EFTORNEYS CHARLES A. SCHOLL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DEVICE FOR WINDING 0R COILING- WIRE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patentgd Aug. 28, 19157.

Application filed November 16, 1916. Serial No. 131,655.

7 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. SoHoLL, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Device for Winding or Coiling Wire, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a device adapted to wind orconvert wire intothe form of a coil or coil spring, the means employed being of simpleand inexpensive construction, and the device is adapted to be easily andconveniently operated, as will be hereinafter described and the novelfeatures pointed out in the claims.

The invention is satisfactorily illustrated in the accompanying drawing,but the important instrumentalities thereof may be varied, and so his tobe understood that the invention is not limited to the specific detailsshown and described.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a ,wire coiling or windingdevice embodying my invention. 7 V

Fig. 2 represents a vertical section of a portion on line 22 Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 represents a longitudinal section of a portion on line 33 Fig. 1,on an enlarged scale.

Fig. 4 represents a top or plan view thereof.

Fig. 5 represents a top plan view of a por tion showing anotheroperation of the device, and an attached holder and guide for the wire.

Fig. 6 represents a perspective view of said holder and guide.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in thefigures.

Referring to the drawings l designates the frame of the device, the

same consisting of the base plate 2, and the.

standards 3 rising therefrom. On the base plate 2 is the clamp 4 wherebythe device may be attached to a support 5 such as a table, bench orotherwise.

On the top of the standards are the bosses 6 which form the bearings forthe rotary arbor 7 which is provided with the crank handle 8 for evidentpurposes, said arbor being held adjustably in position on the frame bycollars 9 which are screwed or otherwise secured to said arbor onopposite sides of said bosses, so as to swivel the arbor on said bosses.

The end of the arbor opposite to the crank handle 8 is screw threadedfor the engagement therewith of the chuck 10 in the interior of whichare the jaws 11, whose heel ends are adapted to be carried by the wellknown conical-head 12 when the spindle or mandrel is inserted in thebody of the chuck so that said jaws may be closed on the spindle 13which is inserted in the bore of the body of the chuck at the front endthereof, and when clamped by said jaws is firmly connected with thechuck and so has its clamped-end supported by the latter. Theoppositeend of said spindle 13 is freely and removably seated in anopening 14 in the vertical limb 15 of the supporting elbow 16, of saidspindle, the horizontal limb 17 of said elbow extending under thespindle 13 and having its free end passed through openings 18 in thelower portions of the standards 3, one of which is provided with thescrew 19 which is adapted to tighten against the adjacent portion ofsaid limb l7 and so sustain the same firmly in position during thecoiling or winding action of the device, it being noticed that when saidscrew is loosened, the elbow 16 may be withdrawn from the standards andso disengage the spindle 13 from the limb 15 that it may be removed fromthe chuck and the resultant coil, spring or article wound from thespindle.

The operation is as follows One end of a piece of wire is inserted inthe body of the chuck between the outer ends of adjacent jaws and soheld. Then the adjacent portion of the length of the piece of wire isplaced close to the spindle 13. The arbor is now rotated, whereby theend portion of the piece of wire is rotated by and with the chuckcausing the adjacent portion of the length of the wire to be car riedaround the spindle in the form of a coil, the forming of theconvolutions of which are guided by the hand, as shown in Fig. 4:, sothat they may be placed in perfect order on the spindle. When the lengthof the coil is completed the screw 19 is loosened, and the elbow movedin the present case, to the left, whereby it disengages the end of thespindle and the coil may be stripped from the spindle.

When desired, the chuck 10 may be unscrewed by being rotated in reverseorder, and .so removed from the jaws that the latter may separate fromthespindle so that i a coil if remaining on the spindle may be removedfrom the latter.

If it is desired to form a coil with widely separated convolutions asshown in Fig. 5, I employ the holder and guide 20, consisting of a baror plate 21 which is provided at its ends with bifurcations 22 either ofwhich may be fitted freely on the spindle 13, said bar having thereinadjacent to the bifurcations the guiding. and hooleshaped' arms 23 underwhich the wire isplaced and adapted to slide fnictionally during thecoiling operation, it being seen that the plate may move along thespindle as the coiling or winding of the wire progresses, and so theconvolutions. may be formed with precision,

and in a convenient manner with relief to the hand of the operator,although it is evidentthat the bar may be used also for close I forsecuring the other end of the support in the frame, and meansintermediate the arbor and spindle for coupling the same and holding oneend of the wire;

2. In a device for winding or coiling wire, a rotatable arbor, a frameon which said arbor has its bearing, a spindle on which the wire iscoiled, means for supporting said connectible with said arbor, an.elbow, saida frame having alsothereonimeans for removably receiving and;holding, the horizontal; limb of said elbow, said chuck being adapted.to support and hold therein one; end of the wire to be coiled, and aspindle having its inner end, adapted to be clamped insaid chuck, thevertical limb of said; elbow being '60 formed with a bearing:forremovablysupportingthe outer end of. said spindle.

CHARLES SCHOLL. Witnesses:

JOHN A. Wnsnnnsrrn rr, "Ne Bussmenn- Copies of this p atentmay beobtained for; five cents each, lay-addressing the commissioner ofPatents,

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